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A374 crash in Plymouth on 28 April 1998 at 18:00 involving a Reliant Metrocab taxi

A Reliant Metrocab taxi crashed on the A374 in Plymouth at 18:00 on Tuesday 28 April 1998. A 79-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Apr 1998
Tuesday, 18:00
Vehicles
1
Reliant Metrocab
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37078, longitude -4.12556, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199850E310929
Council area
Plymouth
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
374
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
B
Second road number
3238

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Reliant Metrocab

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years
    Engine capacity
    2,496 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 79, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Reliant Metrocab)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199850E310929 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Plymouth road accident statistics for 1998.